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Albert Eckhout
A Pioneer of the New World Albert Eckhout was a Dutch portrait and still life painter born in Groningen, Netherlands. He was the son of Albert Eckhourt and Marryen Roeleffs. During his career, he traveled to Dutch Brazil as part of the entourage of the Dutch governor-general, Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Alongside fellow painter Frans Post, Eckhout was tasked with recording the landscape, flora, fauna, and inhabitants of the
region. His body of work includes: Eckhout's ethnographic works, created between 1641 and 1643 for Maurits, were gifted to King Frederick III of Denmark and remain in Copenhagen. His paintings of the Tupi and Tapuya tribes are considered the first realistic images of these native populations. Ethnographic and Still Life Works Eckhout's artistic focus in Brazil included the people, plants, and animals of the region. His ethnogr…